Jean Lowe Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Collaborators:
Department of Pediatrics
Pediatric Research Committee
Division of Neonatology
Department of Psychology
MIND Institute
Bayley Scales of Infant
Development (Nancy Bayley, 1969, 1984 1993, 2006)
Cognitive Scale
Mental
Developmental
Index (MDI)
Language
Scale
MeasureReceptive
of cognition, including fine
Communication
motor and language skills
Expressive
Psychomotor
Developmental
Communication
Motor
Scale
Index
(PDI)
Motorand fine motor skills
MeasureGross
of gross
Fine Motor
Social-Emotional Scale
Adaptive Behavior Scale
The Still-Face Paradigm: A tool
for examining socio-emotional
outcomes
Findings:
Purpose: To examine the dyadic
With an
in maternal responsiveness,
nature
of↑mother-infant
interactions in
there was an ↑in infant positive affect.
6 to 8 month-olds born VLBW and
With a ↓ in infant positive affect, there was
their
mothers
(N
=
50)
using
the
Stillan ↑ in maternal responsiveness
Face
Paradigm,
specifically
Maternal
responsiveness
was examining
the
the
relationship
between
in
strongest
predictor
of infantchanges
affect when
infant
affecttoand
maternal
compared
infant
perinatal medical
history, gestation,(Erickson
gender
and
cognition
responsiveness
& Lowe,
2007)
Early Working Memory and Cognition in
Ethnically Diverse Infants Born ELBW
(Lowe, MacLean, Shaffer, Watterberg, 2008 )
Results: Attainment
of objectwould be
Hypothesis:
Object permanence
permanence
a significant
positive
directly
related tohad
emotional
and attention
regulation,
thatwith
children
with lower
association
emotional
andbirth weight
and
higher illness
severity
would
have more
attention
regulation,
even
after
difficulty
on object
permanence
items,
and that
controlling
for medical
severity
and
no
ethnic/racial
differences
would
be
found.
socio-economic factors. More girls than
233 of the surviving 291 infants (80%) of the
boys
passed
object
permanence
items.
original multicenter PROPHET study were the
There was
noreport.
ethnic/racial difference
subjects
of this
on object permanence.
Future Research
Brain imaging:
Diffusion Tensor Imaging atlas overlay of 50
regions of the brain
Spectroscopy
Blood Flow